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About Nina Stibbe

Nina left Leicestershire for London as a teenager and after two years as a nanny she studied Humanities at Thames Polytechnic.

After graduating in 1987, she worked for a while in a Camden frock shop.

In 1990 she began a career in book publishing, working in various departments before becoming a commissioning editor at Routledge.

In 2002 she moved to Cornwall with her partner and children where she now writes, swims and makes bread.

Nina on Social

Hey @NadineDorries – so as your government was dithering about schools and how to provide education for millions of school children and refusing free school meals for the vulnerable, the BBC were providing lessons for no extra cost and at… 3.6K Retweets

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I think I mean; Behold! A leader. 6 Likes 1 Retweets

Behold a leader! The Scottish First Minister finds time to share books, acknowledge this wonderful writer, and support the arts. Congratulations @Doug_D_Stuart @CamillaElworthy 💕 https://t.co/Ntxm6A8fbj 55 Likes 3 Retweets

Tory MPs knowingly propelled a charlatan into No 10: they are complicit in Boris Johnson’s disastrous premiership. His resignation won’t wipe the slate clean; the whole party must be held accountable for the predictable results.
The Observer view
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@alienbrit353 @littlebrown 😊 Yikes! 🥶 (I reckon it’s only 4 months!) 1 Likes

Hands by described by as‘Light beautifully shed on a subject seldom talked about.’

Hands by @Laurenrbrown95 described by @HelenMort as
‘Light beautifully shed on a subject seldom talked about.’ @HarperNorthUK #memoir https://t.co/WzNkz1YCn7 5 Likes

@anicegreenleaf 😭 OMG that could be future you & K, or me & Alf 🚌 💕 1 Likes

@clintoncottage @JenChappo @littlebrown 😂

@clintoncottage @JenChappo @littlebrown 👋The DOG cover is for 🇺🇸

💙Rachael Maskell MP

Our freedom to protest is under attack.
The #PolicingBill would throw protestors into prison for doing exactly the same as the Suffragettes did.
For all those who fought for our freedoms, throughout history, we must #KillTheBill. #PCSCBill https://t.co/DF5epbyiU6 3.4K Retweets

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@JaneBailey15 😊🙏 1 Likes

@jounwin @JenChappo @littlebrown 🙏😊 2 Likes

Live footage from Operation Save Big Dog

Elizabeth (EC) Fremantle 💙

Live footage from Operation Save Big Dog https://t.co/y3NgBZ311z 4 Retweets

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@eggsbened @littlebrown UK edition April! 😊 1 Likes

@schauffd22 @littlebrown 🤗

@JenChappo @littlebrown Good question… Paging @jounwin 2 Likes

@John_J_Spence @littlebrown @lifeofalinguist 😊💕 2 Likes

@Gail_Lynch @littlebrown 😊

@LucyMangan made me spit out my peppermint tea 🍃

🇺🇸 New book May 3rd

🇺🇸 New book May 3rd @littlebrown #OneDayIShallAstonishTheWorld https://t.co/gYFY0hvAuw 229 Likes 7 Retweets

Nina's Blog

The good nanny

My book Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life is the letters I wrote to my sister when I was a live-in nanny to two boys in the…

Going home for Xmas

First published in Psychologies, January 2014 Until I had children of my own I almost always went home for Xmas to my mum and step-dad’s house…

Almost famous

First published in The Sunday Times, 10th Nov 2013 When I left Leicestershire in the 1980s, to become a nanny in London, the thing that most…

Not in front of the children

An edited version of this article was published in The Guardian, 10 November 2013 ‘We’ll have to stop swearing soon’, I said to my friend a few…